dextrorotatory vs widdershins

dextrorotatory

adj
  • That rotates the plane of polarized light to the right, or clockwise. Notation: (+) or formerly lowercase d-. 

widdershins

adv
  • anticlockwise, counter-clockwise 

How often have the words dextrorotatory and widdershins occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )